“Thank you for the sentence that has never been spoken before on earth,” Roger Ebert liked to say to sentences that had never been spoken before on earth spoken in his presence.

The department has sent Google, Meta and other companies hundreds of subpoenas for information on accounts that track or comment on Immigration and Customs Enforcement, officials and tech workers said. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/t...

Gift link: www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/u...

Calling the requirement for a judicial warrant before entering a person’s home one of the Democrats’ “new restrictions on federal immigration agents” crosses the line into outright falsehood. It’s in the Bill of Rights! A rule as old as the republic.

Crazy that Costco’s we value our customers message is so much more effective than everyone else telling us to fuck off

Swalwell: ICE agents shot Alex Pretti and Renee Good. And the only person in the world who has been held accountable by DHS is the pilot who somehow forgot to move Kristi Noem’s blankie.

The Olympics still love him

It’s because the goal is not safety but policing, and that has more to do with control than anything else. Groups of people gathering, the very basis of community, is by default seen as suspicious. That’s why their preferred designs all have to do with limiting human interactions.

Not sure who needs to hear this but the voter fraud rate is a mere 0.000003%. Anyone telling you otherwise is making shit up so they can take away your right to vote.

I urge you to keep watching (I’m a fan).

I interviewed a family of Russian asylum seekers who’ve been held more than four months at the Dilley detention center in Texas. As we spoke over Zoom this week, their daughter Kamilla was one day shy of turning 12. I asked her what she wanted for her birthday. She replied: “To get out of here.”

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I mean, if RNC and Fox consider Trump a fascist pedophile, who am I to argue?

Same energy (Twitter screenshot via @tyyoung617.bsky.social)

"we continue to work on communication" what is this a couples therapy?

INBOX: Another federal judge has issued an order (mostly) blocking DHS from raiding churches for now. The injunction applies to most of the plaintiffs, which include five ELCA Lutheran synods, two Baptist organizations, and Metropolitan Community Churches. democracyforward.org/wp-content/u...

This is an extraordinary piece about the grind and hopelessness of life in present day Cuba, by Ruaridh Nicoll who manages to be by turns romantic, wistful and clear eyed. It is a piece about loss and gross incompetence in the face of that loss. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/f...

US Troops killed all the guards at Dachau for this kind of shit.

"UNCONSTITUTIONAL MESS" Attorneys for Don Lemon and Georgia Fort say DOJ has squandered the presumption of grand jury regularity with it's "nakedly political" actions. "In the United States of America, we do not prosecute journalists for doing their job." storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

My New Yorker interview with David Remnick. Give it a listen. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/w...

We need names of staff at each of these death and degradation camps, and let’s start with Dilley.

Luke O’Neil, author of We Had It Coming, says his book will change your life and everyone should buy it.

$15 million in security paid for with money that had been allocated to save lives of children worldwide

Eeeeeeevil

Dude is off his rocker. Tell me how you're going to patrol tens of thousands of voting locations in 3144 nationwide counties "whether Congress approves it or not!" This is designed to terrify people into not voting. Don't fall for it.

I do not like that the delicious cooking fats are now Nazi coded

"Trump praises veterans" - NYT

This is so disgustingly inappropriate to do anywhere, but particularly in front of troops

Not only did Trump lose the 2016 popular vote by nearly 3 million votes, once he was in office he launched a massive "voter fraud" investigation to prove that he'd *actually* won the popular vote by several million and then they didn't find a thing and quietly disbanded it.

Nothing like precautions. NARRATOR: In fact, nothing is nothing like precautions.

you know, it still seems like it should be an even bigger issue that the president has been sending armed forces to kidnap and assault people in an ethnic cleansing campaign, with a specific geographic focus on regions that didn't vote for him in the last election

Anyone need further clarification on why you don't give the "COVID wasn't bad enough" guys a secret police and concentration camps? If so, I'm just going to leave you to think on that,

As others have noted, it’s a Bad Idea to go exploring this on your own computer. But also, some national-level politicians (cc @wyden.senate.gov) should sit in a room with some judges and sort this out.

there is no coming back from this for the united states — they will hate us forever — unless we work to hold these criminal monsters running our government responsible. Let's do this.

Nuremberg

Can't believe people blocked me just for being a bigoted piece of shit. I will have 7000 words in the Atlantic on this next month

I think it's also time to revisit the theory of those who interpreted Trump's 2024 win as evidence of a durable cultural turn against immigrants, a theory associated with David Leonhardt. Much of what we're seeing now badly complicates that theory. 7/ newrepublic.com/article/2059...

SCOOP: ICE is asking Social Security for peoples' in-person appointment dates and times, and SSA staff are being told to give it to them. From me + @leahfeiger.bsky.social + @zoeschiffer.bsky.social @wired.com wired.com/story/social...

Clinton was impeached for an affair. Nixon resigned over one burglary. Trump has 34 felony convictions and 1 million mentions in the Epstein files. But he's still president??? The system is broken. PUT HIM IN JAIL!!!

Seriously, that $400 million jet needs to be up on blocks on the day he tries to flee the country for the Middle East, because you know that's his plan.

As always with pieces like this, there’s the story-proper and the “why are we hearing this story?”–story, which is often equally interesting. (In this case: Lots of folks within Trumpworld regard Noem/Lewandowski with contempt and would happily see them ousted.)

Trump claimed he hadn't spoken to Jeffrey Epstein since 2004. But here is an email from 2018 wherein Epstein claims he was asked for 3 names to replace Steven Mnuchin. Everything Donald says is a lie.

On Thanksgiving, the immigrant children held at the Dilley detention center gathered in the gym for what they thought was a holiday feast. The kids salivated over a spread of turkey, sandwiches, pastries and pies, a family told me. But the food wasn’t for detainees — it was for the staff.

And so it’s unsurprising that white evangelical leaders keep being exposed as sexual predators. That behavior is about control and power that’s all they care about.

The abortion debate on the right is really about a right to sexual freedom and when you step them through the logic of it, they have to argue that sex is not essential to a Christian marriage and was never designed for pleasure at all or there are too many holes in their anti abortion arguments

The SAVE Act is an election power grab that could block millions of eligible voters. Let’s be clear: we’ve already seen U.S. citizens detained by ICE despite having proof of citizenship. Now we’re supposed to trust this same government to police paperwork at the ballot box? tinyurl.com/yhwj7b77

“DHS is shutting down because it refuses to obey the law” is excellent framing

The Wall Street Journal story on Noem and Lewandowski is just a bus running over them, backing up, running over them again, and on and on. A line of admin officials waiting to get their turn at the wheel. Paywalled at WSJ, free at MSN (good biz model) www.msn.com/en-us/news/p...